Sentence examples for took a bend from inspiring English sources

Callouts to breakdowns were running at 2,000 an hour by midday, including one to a patrol vehicle hit by a 4x4 that took a bend in Surrey too fast in ice.

Everyone took a turn bending down to squint at the area that Bruce Thompson had represented so clearly in wireframe, on the computer.

As a narrow Greek road unwinds behind them, their relationship – its strains and strengths – unfolds too, taking a bend here and there, running straight and smooth at other times.

J. G. Booth: Taking a bend in ramshackle pram can give you a shock (tram; a U in anag).. C. A. Clarke: Knocking our favourite finally from amateur dancing produces a shock reaction (out; anag. less e).

You're very low - it's the lowest-slung bike in its class - and the first time you take a bend and scrape the footboards you realise this calls for a different style of riding.

I once spun a Formula Ford 360 off a track while taking a bend and sat on the verge, gurning with joy and adrenaline, steaming at the ears and vowing to get a race licence - if not in this life, then the next.

Wherever a stream channel takes a bend, water flows faster on the outer edge of the channel and erodes the banks.

Now the ceremony take a bend towards conceptual art.

Knowing his offense could usually score at will, Bill Belichick had his banged-up, often makeshift defense take a bend-but-don't-break approach.

Take a bending wire [it is easily available at stationary nearby] and make curly bends in it.

Every time he took a left bend, his right shin was rammed against a burning-hot tube on the frame near the exhaust.